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Three Missouri prisons to reopen to visitors this week with restrictions

Starting this Thursday, Algoa Correctional Center in central Missouri’s Jefferson City, South Central Correctional Center in Licking and Chillicothe Correctional Center in northwest Missouri will begin allowing visitors again. Since the spread of the coronavirus, Missouri’s state prisons have been closed to families, friends, and acquaintances of inmates. Restrictions •All visitors must call the facility […]

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Three injured in two-vehicle crash near Osborn

Three people received moderate injuries in a two-vehicle accident on Sunday afternoon two miles west of Osborn. Inured were one of the drivers, 49 year old Shelly Morgan of Gallatin as well as two passengers, 35 year old Brandy Shull-Bayte and 26 year old Jessica Eddy, both of Plattsburg. They were taken by ambulances to […]

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Marceline man drowns in farm pond

The Highway Patrol reports a man from Marceline died in a farm pond on Sunday afternoon in rural Linn County. Twenty-six-year-old Jacob Sprague was found lying face down in the pond, two miles northeast of Laclede. The body was taken to the Delaney Funeral Home in Marceline. Troopers stated it appears Sprague was suffering from […]

Underage Impaired Driving

KC man arrested and charged in DeKalb County

A Kansas City, Missouri man has been arrested in DeKalb County. The highway patrol reports 34-year-old Karbino Deng-Barac was taken to the Daviess-DeKalb County Regional Jail. Deng-Barac was accused Sunday evening of felony driving while intoxicated – habitual offender as well as no valid operator’s license and no valid vehicle registration. Deng-Barac was charged Monday […]

MoDOT Road Work

Westbound Route 36 to close in Hamilton

The next two weekends will see nighttime closures of the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 36 for continued repairs to a bridge in Caldwell County which was struck by a vehicle last year. Crews from Comanche Construction, Inc., working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, plan to close the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 36 […]